The remains of clay vessels from different periods, among oldest of them are related to Starcevo culture can be found in large sites in the Moravac area.

By Tihomir Djordjevic Aleksinac and all villages of the municipality on the left side of South Morava river, were inhabited in prehistoric times.

In Moravac in 1985 during archaeological research, 27 Roman tombs dating from the early Middle Ages were excavated.

In 1833, the village as well as the entire territory of present-day municipality of Aleksinac, were liberated from the Turks and became part of Serbia.

The main Serb military commander of Russian forces was General Mihail Chernyayev also known as Nikolai Rayevski in Tolstoi’s Ana Karenina.